Profiles
John Fawcett
WORKSPACE- Jan/Feb 2011
Text and photograph by Meggan Gould
John Fawcett has been collecting antique toys and original comic art for decades. The extensive collection is lovingly crammed into seven colorful rooms at the Waldoboro Antique Toy & Art Museum.
Walter Simmons
WORKSPACE- Nov/Dec 2010
Photograph by Meggan Gould
Walter Simmons carves duck decoys and builds boats in his Lincolnville workshop. Adjacent is Duck Trap Decoys, a store where his wife, Karen, sells Walter’s carvings as well as those of sixty other carvers.
Add a commentAnn Prescott
WORKSPACE-September 2010
Photograph by Meggan Gould
Ann Prescott’s wood-turning studio in Bath is a 12-by-20-foot garage, where chunks of raw wood are literally turned into vessels, both functional and decorative.
Add a commentAnne Mahle
WORKSPACE- July 2010
By Justin Franz | Photograph by Meggan Gould
Chef Anne Mahle doesn’t have the luxury of space and tranquility. She is the head chef on the J. & E. Riggin, which she owns with her husband, Jon Finger. The 120-foot schooner is part of the historic Maine Windjammer fleet, which takes guests on overnight excursions along the coast. Mahle and Finger have owned
the boat since 1998.
Kevin Kearns
WORKSPACE-June 2010
Kevin Kearns is a horticulturist and the director of the Seedling Program at the Morrison Center in Scarborough. The program employs twenty adults with developmental disabilities in two state-of-the-art buildings known as “the happiest greenhouses in Maine.” Plants are for sale to the public Monday–Friday, 8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
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Light Cameras
PROFILE-May 2010
Photography by Brenton Hamilton
The Maine Media Workshops is a photographic mecca in Rockport. Peter A. Smith spoke with the workshop’s founder, its teachers, and some of its worldly disciples.
Michael Townsend
WORKSPACE-April 2010
Photograph by Shoshannah White
Michael Townsend is the Director of Creative Services for Perry & Banks, where he works on campaigns for the City of Gardiner and national business-to-business clients. In 1985, during a trip to Lubec, Townsend came up with an iconic Maine phrase that has subsequently been adapted for I-95 road signs, a Subway sandwich slogan, and L.L. Bean T-shirts: “Welcome to Maine, The Way Life Should Be.”
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